Burley now "open" to Boyd returning for Scotland

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Another one from the Evening Times. What I find strange in all of this is that you've got an experienced manager, who's an older man, who let this situation get out of control instead of dealing with it at the time. He then behaved very immaturely and childishly with many of his comments to the media (as did his assistant), so you could only assume that they didn't give a stuff about Boyd. At the time it was also pointed out that his reasons for not playing Boyd were completely unfounded as there were many others on the park who had played for their teams less than Boyd had done for us.

 

Meanwhile Boyd has been playing very well for us and has made marked improvements in all aspects of his game. Over at Hampden Park, the national side are still dropping points. Suddenly you have Butcher and now Burley talking about a return for Boyd. But it seems that even now they can't be the bigger men and put things behind them as both have made comments which aren't quite the olive branch they might seem at first.

 

Butcher says that Boyd must first apologise while Burley now comes out and has obviously told the Herald that Boyd needs to improve his attitude. So basically they still think they're blameless in all of this.

 

I'd love to see Boyd playing for Scotland again, but to be honest, I wouldn't blame him if he told them to stick it.

 

George Burley last night cleared the way for Kris Boyd to reclaim his place in Scotland's World Cup qualification campaign. The national manager revealed he is "open" to the idea of Boyd reconsidering his international retirement but The Herald understands that the Rangers striker would only be made welcome if he showed a vast improvement in attitude.

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It all depends what went on behind the scenes that we dont know about. Boyd should have been put on ahead of Iwelemo or Fletcher as IMO it wasnt a game to hand 2 debuts.

 

But for all we know Boyd may be lazy in training and just having a laugh and taking his place for granted - at the time he wasnt playing well. Therefore Burley maybe didnt want to reward him with a place.

 

Its similar to Gow and WS.

 

But BOyd has knuckled down and started playing much better in a few games, he would have been the bigger man also if he didnt quit the Scotland scene but proved Burley wrong with all his goals. Now they both look to be in a no win situation.